There are some cases in which the government should coerce its citizens into providing care
to vulnerable persons. For example, suppose that a woman and her infant are snowed in a …

Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus'
health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as …

Some people oppose abortion on the grounds that fetuses have full moral status and thus a
right to not be killed. We argue that special obligations that hold between mother and fetus …

The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal
positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion …

The term “abortion” is used in this discussion to refer to deliberate removal (or deliberate
action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 2 from the womb of a human female, at the request …

The papers included in this supplement were first given at a meeting, The New Ethics of
Abortion, organised by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) in Senate House at …

In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

W by SISSELA BOK are asked to imagine the following irrational behavior. First, medical
personnel and a pregnant woman cooperate in abortive practices usu-ally fatal to an embryo …

Abortions performed during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy sometimes result
in abortuses (aborted fetuses) which might be saved if given vigorous medical care. Does …